Religion and Media De Vries Weber Paperback MK – Stanford University Press

Religion and MediaAuthor(s): Hent de Vries, Samuel Weber\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804734974, 978-0804734974\nSynopsis\nThe latter part of the twentieth century saw an explosion of new media that effected profound changes in human categories of communication. At the same time, a \""return to religion\"" occurred on a global scale. The twenty-five contributors to this volumewho include such influential thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Talal Asad, and James Siegelconfront the conceptual, analytical, and empirical difficulties involved in addressing the complex relationship between religion and media.\n\n The book's introductory section offers a prolegomenon to the multiple problems raised by an interdisciplinary approach to these multifaceted phenomena. The essays in the following part provide exemplary approaches to the historical and systematic background to the study of religion.